Posted on 04/13/2016 3:57:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
A federal judge said Tuesday that the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag is "anti-American" because it represents those who fought to leave the United States.
But U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is not yet saying whether he will fully consider a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the flag as a state symbol.
Reeves heard more than three hours of arguments about motions in the lawsuit that Carlos Moore, an African-American attorney from Grenada, Mississippi, filed against the state. Moore is asking Reeves to declare the flag an unconstitutional relic of slavery.
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You fly your flag Yankee and we will fly ours...its called freedom.
The only flag that represents the South is the white one.
This is the same judge that ruled that a Mississippi HS band could not play “How Great Thou Art” during a halftime performance. Moore shopped around until he could get this judge to rule on this case. Reeves is typical of the Bennie Thompson district of Mississippi that is full of professional victim blacks and welfare recipients.
Judge Carlton Reeves was appointed by Barack Obama.
Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant
On November 25, 2014, he ruled in the case of Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant that Mississippi’s same-sex marriage ban violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
As they say, the busiest place in the state is the Post Office on the first of the month.
Bet you were public schooled.
You are not a Southerner so your ignorance is excused.
True the South lost but we still glory in the noble lost cause, the patriotic resistance to Northern aggression and Yankee atrocities. Slavery never mattered to the honorable Confederate warrior desperately defending his beloved homeland against the barbaric hordes of blue belly beasts.
We celebrate the years 1861 to 1865 as we do 1775 to 1783.
The Yankees, on the other hand, have no pride no heritage no American soul.
An empty win.
Not exclusively and not completely within the United States.
And Southerners are still whining about it. Get over it.
I’ve always laughed at the irony of the Hawaiian flag and how us Haoles pulled this off on the natives.
Then islam, black liberation theology, La rasa are anti-American too. Don’t ban American history and allow those a free pass who desire to overthrow the US today.
If by whining you mean lamenting that federal unconstitutional aggression trampled states rights, setting the precedent for rulings like Roe V Wade and gay marriage, yes, we will never stop whining.
uh, this judge has no say in the matter.
should’ve thrown this off his bench on the first reading, saying, “this isn’t a case for the court.”
Today is Jefferson’s birthday. What are the chances he would be urging the judge to ban the flag?
The plaintiff is entitled to a hearing. By rights, having heard the man out then his ruling should be to dismiss the case on lack of standing or jurisdiction. We'll see what happens.
>”the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag is “anti-American” because it represents those who fought to leave the United States.”
Not that I expect anything less from the black-robed tyrants:
“...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...”
Confederate here. Been watching the Jackie Robinson
special on PBS. Seems to me what he did rang true; but
when Michelle & Hussein intoned, it rang hollow & stank
up the whole thing. When all is said & done, phony falls
flat.
Yes.
Whinin’? why Hell stupid Yankee, we is BRAGGIN’!
We whipped the Japs, their flag is still flying and is on clothing designs.
There are other Confederate Battle Flags that no one foams at the mouth as they have not been trained, like Pavlov's dog, to foam at the mouth when they see it.
There are over FORTY different flags that were associated with the Nazis and Japs and we whipped them. No one foams at the mouth except over the Confederate Battle Flag.
Does this modified flag send you into a Pavlovian frenzy?
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